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U2´s lead rock singer and songwriter, Bono, and the actress and producer Angelina Jolie, have more than their appearances in Tv in common. When they became active in social issues, they were both making a statement about the kind of human beings they were. When Bono attended the World Economic Forum in New York City in February 2002, he was trying to get the World richest nations to cancel the $90 billion debt of the world´s poorest nations.
When Angelina Jolie became involved in the UNHCR programme, she was giving refugees from poor countries hope for the future. It´s not always easy to get the powerful to pay attention to these issues.
However, people take more notice when famous artists become involved and work to narrow the gap between the priviledged and the unprivileged in our world.
Bono was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1960. He used to be an argumentative teenager who always questioned what was going on around him. Perhaps this aspect of his personality pushed Bono to become a socially-concious songwriter. At the Economic Forum he campaigned for greater health care funding for the Third World. Bono was pushing for drug companies to sell AIDS drugs much more cheaply to the Third World countries. Many foreign governments questioned the usefulness of foreign aid to poor countries, but bono pointed out that because of aid to Uganda, the number of children attending to school had risen threefold. Bono wants more money from the wealthy to go to the poor. His goal is helping all African economies to grow.
Angelina Jolie joined in 2001 to UNHCR, a special programme created by UN to help refugees in countries as Tanzania, Palestina or Lebanon. She became an important Goodwill Ambassador for her relevance as actress as, at the same time because she was really involved in the programme. During her first three years as Goodwill Ambassador, Jolie concentrated her efforts on field missions, visiting refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) all around the world.
Recently In 2007, Jolie returned to Chad for a two-day mission to assess the deteriorating security situation for refugees from Darfur; Jolie and Pitt subsequently donated $1 million to three relief organizations in Chad and Darfour. Jolie also made her first visit to Syria and Iraq, where she met with Iraqi refugees as well as multi-national forces and U.S. troops.
At the same time that Jolie was working in films, she was talking to international governments about the problems of refugees from poor countries involved in long wars; this means that she is really working for them.
Both Bono and Jolie have been blessed with the gift of art, music and cinema. Each has also been blessed with a kind, generous heart. While continuing to develop their careers, both give concerts and make special films for the charity programmes they are involved in. They continue to use their fame to help fight poverty in their own way. Bono and Angelina Jolie are certainly more then just celebrities
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